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Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
The technology could one day decode dreams—or reveal our most private thoughts. The post This AI Reconstructs What You’re Looking at From a Brain Scan appeared first on SingularityHub.
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
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Key points • Microsoft introduced Microsoft-Decision-1, a dedicated model for decision ranking and obtaining structured probabilities. • The model is based on Qwen3.5-9B and returns a directed probability from a fixed set of options instead of a textual output. • According to the company, response time is roughly 35 times faster than GPT-6 Sol, with significantly lower operational costs. • The model is available on Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter at a price of $0.042 per million input tokens, with no cost for output. ...
Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.
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Main points • The Schneider Center and the organization Code for Israel launched an artificial intelligence system for creating communication boards for hospitalized children. • The system generates personalized boards by age, language and gender in less than five minutes instead of hours of manual work. • The tool enables ventilated children and those who have difficulty speaking to express pain and needs, and frees up direct treatment time for communication clinicians. • The development was carried out voluntarily by [...]
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access […]
For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.
Key points • Anthropic launched the compact AI model Claude Haiku 5.5. • The model offers pricing that is 90% lower for short requests, a configurable effort setting, and support for running a computer and a browser. • According to the company, the cost of running routine tasks is about 75% lower compared to the previous generation Haiku 4.5. • The model is now available to developers starting at $0.10 per input token and $0.50 per output token per million tokens. Anthropic announced [...]
Key points • Google announced Gemini agent, a universal AI agent for autonomous work and handling long-running tasks. • The agent is based on dynamic routing among different models, including the Gemini series and Anthropic's Claude models. • The system operates directly within Workspace apps and can function as a personal agent or as an independent team colleague. • The service is currently in a private preview and is expected to roll out soon to selected Workspace subscribers. [...]
The Paper2Agent system could make it easier to understand papers, reproduce results, and generate hypotheses. The post This Tool Turns Scientific Articles Into Agents That Answer Questions and Collaborate appeared first on SingularityHub.
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving he's more than just a Hollywood star.
The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
